Roger Goodell is about on adding insult to damage in his running feud with Jerry Jones.

The NFL commissioner is planning to high-quality Jones thousands and thousands of bucks in the weeks ahead, in keeping with a brand new York Times report, for publicly lobbying against his lucrative agreement extension, which Goodell nonetheless received in December with the toughen of the majority of owners. Under the brand new incentive-weighted down deal, Goodell could earn as much as $TWO HUNDRED million over 5 years.

The punishment also stems from Jones’ staunch defense of Cowboys working again Ezekiel Elliott as he was once interesting a six-recreation suspension the NFL handed down on the start of the 2017 season for his involvement in a domestic violence case. Jones, the Cowboys’ billionaire owner, overtly argued towards the NFL’s determination to punish his famous person participant and is said to have attempted to sway league officers in his prefer.

Goodell is expected to demand Jones pay the amount the league spent defending itself in Elliott’s appeals case — which Elliott in the end gave up Nov. 15 after months of back-and-forth rulings, thereby serving the remaining of his suspension — as well as the expenses of the NFL’s repayment committee after Jones threatened to sue the gang over Goodell’s contract.

Jones had hired attorney David Boies in November with the intention of taking the six house owners who make up the committee (Chiefs, Falcons, Giants, Patriots, Steelers and Texans) to court docket over their efforts to ratify Goodell’s extension, which Jones found to be too generous. Regardless That Jones ultimately subsidized off his danger, after unsightly exchanges among the two sides stole attention from the sphere in the course of the season, Jones already had burned some bridges with owners and Goodell.

Jones’ dating with the commissioner, which was cordial within the past, began to cross downhill ultimate 12 months, when Jones began speaking out on behalf of Elliott, who was by no means criminally charged after his ex-female friend accused him of domestic violence. The NFL still believed it had enough evidence to ban the 2016 Offensive Rookie of the 12 Months for six video games.

The legit announcement in August sent Jones over the brink.

“There’s not anything,” he stated on the time. “i have reviewed the whole thing. there is absolutely not anything, now not something I’ve seen that has the rest to do with household violence. I’ve noticed nothing.”